Pac-man's inventor dies

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• Heater. Posts: 21,230

  2017-02-01 00:46

  Wait a minute.
  
  Toru Iwatani creator of Pac-Man is still alive as far as I can tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Iwatani
  
  
• erco Posts: 20,261

  2017-02-01 00:47 edited 2017-02-01 00:49

  91 is a great age to achieve, Nakamura-san enjoyed a successful career founding Namco. EVERYONE knows those sounds.
  
  
• Peter Jakacki Posts: 10,193

  2017-02-01 00:51 edited 2017-02-01 00:51

  The game designer may have modeled "Pac Man" after Saccorhytus. Round, lots of dots and a big mouth.
• Heater. Posts: 21,230

  2017-02-01 00:56

  Hmm...
  
  Big mouth and no anus.
  
  Who'da thought?
  
• kwinn Posts: 8,697

  2017-02-01 02:42

  Heater. wrote: »

  Hmm...
  
  Big mouth and no anus.
  
  Who'da thought?

  
  50% of the way to being a political animal?
• MikeDYur Posts: 2,176

  2017-02-01 03:07

  kwinn wrote: »

  Heater. wrote: »

  Hmm...
  
  Big mouth and no anus.
  
  Who'da thought?

  
  50% of the way to being a political animal?

  
  
  Yah, but the rest of us still have to deal with the Smile.
• Tor Posts: 2,010

  2017-02-01 08:02 edited 2017-02-01 08:32

  Heater. wrote: »

  Wait a minute.
  
  Toru Iwatani creator of Pac-Man is still alive as far as I can tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Iwatani
  

  Indeed. Masaya Nakamura did not invent Pac-Man, just like the owner of the patent office where Einstein worked didn't come up with the theory of relativity. (OK maybe that is a too hard comparison - at least Nakamura was involved in selling the game)
  
• JonM Posts: 318

  2017-02-01 16:09

  
  Although Toru Iwatani designed "PUC-MAN", Nakamura was the founder of Namco where Iwatani worked and without Nakamura's vision to allow the release of the game it may have never existed outside of the vision of Iwatani. I do believe Nakamura deserves some cred.
• Chris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406

  2017-02-01 17:09

  JonM wrote: »

  Although Toru Iwatani designed "PUC-MAN", Nakamura was the founder of Namco where Iwatani worked and without Nakamura's vision to allow the release of the game it may have never existed outside of the vision of Iwatani. I do believe Nakamura deserves some cred.

  
  Proper credit is given in the article. I don't think anyone is actually reading the article...
• Heater. Posts: 21,230

  2017-02-01 17:13

  I read it. Missed that. JonM is right. No man is an island.